Didn’t a super Zionist kill Rabin, ending the last real chance for Arab and Israeli peace because both sides are now on a viewpoint of “there can be only one, and the other must be destroyed brutally and permanently”?
Yep. The election after that had Netanyahu (the same man whose rhetoric radicalized the killer) win, and we've been in 30 years of middle east quagmires ever since.
I wonder what the next Democrat will have to do.
There's going to be a worldwide apology tour to every US ally regardless, but in regards to Iran, I don't see how the genie can be put back in the bottle now.
Ali Khamenei, the previous ayatollah who instituted the fatwa against nuclear weapons, barring the full fledged development of nuclear weapons on religious grounds is now dead. His hardliner son who may or may not be alive right now is being puppeted by an increasingly radicalized regime. Once they're given enough breathing room, I don't doubt that they'd start hastily constructing as many dirty bombs as possible.
The JCPOA had contingency after contingency set up to avoid this exact scenario and smooth over relations. It was set to last 10 years because 10 years of positive relations could've yielded an even better deal.
then 10/7 happened and the Democrats were probably shocked to see that a lot of their constituents were pro Palestine and really hated Israel, yet couldn’t get people to vote for them with a message of how a ceasefire would be better than just going for the guy who straight up says “giving Israel everything it needs to finish the job” (especially with Americans taken hostage).
The American (far) Left is a disorganized mess that gets off on infighting. The Palestine conflict happening under Joe Biden was like crack to them because it finally gave every brainrotted DSA brooklynite/wannabe communist revolutionary larper/Bernout/wannabe Islamist grifter an excuse and a moral highground to ratfuck as hard as possible.
There seems to be a universal agreement amongst recent history's far left factions that allowing the far right to win is better than having the center-left win.
Not to be cliche, but in 1931 Weimar Germany, the Communist Party (KPD) helped enable Hitler and the Nazis, thinking that after the Nazis worsened Germany's situation, the people would be begging for a Communist takeover. Their internal slogan was literally "After Hitler, Our Turn!" ("Nach Hitler, kommen wir!"). For the far left, it's better that someone who agrees with 0% of their beliefs to get into power than it is for someone who agrees with 90% of what they believe in.
In that vein, the KPD and the Nazis joined forces to dismantle the Social Democratic Party, force them out of power, and pass the Enabling Act to go full throttle on Accelerationism. Of course, that generation of communists learned that Accelerationism was a retarded idea, but only after they faced the wrong end of an SS officer's gun or during their final gasps for air in a filth encrusted concentration camp gas chamber.
After Bernie lost in 2016, a lot of people on the far left saw a Trump victory as a way to dismantle the Democratic Party, take it over and radically transform it in their image. When that didn't happen the first time, and a moderate was chosen in Joe Biden, they were furious because they thought the moment was lost. Currently, after successfully using Palestine as the new wedge issue to increase voter apathy in 2024, they've been feverishly turning Democratic primaries into single-issue Israel shitflinging contests despite the fact that most of the candidates have the same general left-leaning policies.
And if a Republican takes over, Europe will probably commit to upping its military and defense spending and declare the US an ally of Russia.
If it's terminally online, Twitter brainrotted, Heritage Foundation Thiel puppet Vance, Europe should absolutely consider the US an ally of Russia and fully cut the US out of any defensive agreements/intelligence sharing. If it's Rubio, the global south needs to hunker down and start stockpiling as many drones and missiles as possible.
"Sleepy Joe Biden could never. NO FUN staying around for communists. NOT WORTH IT!! MHGA! (Make Heaven Great Again)"